Two runs add up to 11-AAA title for Brentwood

Brentwood’s boys used a 15-1 run in the second quarter and a 12-1 spurt in the third quarter to carve a 68-52 win over host Ravenwood on Friday night.

That gave the Bruins (21-7, 8-2) their first District 11-AAA regular-season title since 2002.

“Too much adrenaline,” Bruins Coach Dennis King said of a sluggish start that saw his team fall behind 15-9 at the end of the first quarter. “Once we settled down, that’s when the runs came. We hit our foul shots. We’ve got a great little point guard and we put the ball in his hands, and the rest is easy.”

“I don’t think they’re 16 points better than us, but it’s kind of hard to argue that right now,” Raptors Coach Patrick Whitlock said. “We came out with some energy and some emotion, and then it just kind of went south from there. I thought we attacked their zone a lot better this time. We just missed shots around the rim instead of missing 3’s.”

Robert Veal led Ravenwood (19-9, 6-4) with 14 points in front of a capacity crowd in the Battle of the Woods.

“We got complacent and we started trying to take people one-on-one,” Veal said. “We strayed from out strategy and it happens like that. Hopefully, we’ll get them again in the district tournament and we’ll be able to redeem ourselves.”